Dr. Olga Tsigkou joined the University of Manchester in 2014 as a Lecturer in Biomaterials after completing an Intra-European Marie Curie Fellowship (IEF-CORDIS) at the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens, Greece. Prior to this, Olga completed postdoctoral training at Imperial College in the laboratories of Professor Molly M Stevens and Professor Julian R Jones and at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School in the laboratory of Professor Joseph P Vacanti. She received a PhD in the investigation of bioactive glasses for bone tissue engineering from Imperial College, an MSc in Molecular Medicine from University College London and a BSc in Biology and an ASc in Chemistry from the University of New Haven, Connecticut. Olga is currently programme co-ordinator of the MSc in Biomaterials and co-ordinator of MatSoc, the School of Materials student society.